Quotes about "War & Peace"

After the killing of Osama Bin Laden, the Obama administration steadfastly refused to say which element of the U.S. military had participated in the assault. Until Vice President Joe Biden decided to talk about it on national television, that is. ”

The Chinese Communist Party and the American people are locked in conflict. ”

Before becoming a college president, I helped over a dozen organizations find strategies to get through some very ugly crises. ”

Talking and diplomacy is often seen as a concession in America, in a way that it is not in other places. ”

We don't have to kind of be in cycles of conflict if we can find other ways to resolve these issues. We can do things that challenge the conventional thinking that, you know, 'AIPAC doesn't like this,' or 'the Israeli government doesn't like this,' or 'the Gulf countries don't like it.' It's the possibility of improved relations with adversaries. ”

Laos is the ghost of American military interventions past. ”

I don't think people realize how many decisions the president of the United States makes about military action. ”

We are proud of the role our military plays in Japan: defending our allies, ensuring regional peace and stability, and responding to humanitarian catastrophes. ”

Following one of the most violent conflicts in human history, the United States and Japan built a deep and abiding friendship - an alliance that has underwritten unprecedented economic growth and security in the Asia Pacific for half a century. It is an alliance based on mutual interests and shared values and the ties between our people. ”

I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me. ”